Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 59
This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 19
This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
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A man who writes the book on ending a romance runs into rough sledding while starting a new one in this comedy. Quincy (Jamie Foxx) is a magazine editor whose life takes an unexpected turn for the worse when his fiancée, Helen (Bianca Lawson), decides to give him some interesting news at their engagement party -- she's breaking up with him. A few days later, Quincy's boss, Phillip (Peter MacNicol), gives him the task of cutting manpower in his department by 15 percent; too emotionally beaten to
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Cast
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Jamie Foxx
Watson Quincy -
Gabrielle Union
Callas Nicky -
Morris Chestnut
Evan Fields -
Peter MacNicol
Philip Gascon -
Jennifer Esposito
Rita Monroe -
Bianca Lawson
Helen Sharp -
Jill Ritchie
Amy -
Heather Headley
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Gerald Emerick
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... this is basically just a sitcom.
Top CriticNo movie this stupid should need a plot synopsis this complicated.
A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters, including a leading man viewers can never really warm up to.
A cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce.
If the movie were 10 minutes longer, the mix-ups might grind viewers down, but director Daniel Taplitz knows how to juggle the subplots he's given.
In many ways a throwback to the era of Doris Day and Jack Lemmon movies.
Not much worth seeing in this mess of a movie.
...may be fluff, but it is patient, character-driven fluff.
Digresses into that hazy zone where we're not sure if we're watching overwrought drama or a joke that just isn't funny.
it's all very silly and highly unbelievable, but the five main leads are all having a good time.
With a little more polish, Daniel Taplitz's quick-witted romantic comedy might have lived happily ever after.
A good cast tries to rescue a bad script.
Breakin' All the Rules doesn't break any rules at all. It's just a by-the-numbers romantic comedy.
...the comedy never tried to stretch beyond being common.
Everybody involved in Breakin' All the Rules -- especially the audience -- deserves something more than this tedious excuse for a movie.
All the performers deserve better than this.
sticks to the rules of too many lame sitcoms and unfunny comedies past, which the doomed actors follow like lemmings off a cliff
If one movie could prove once and for all that dating is a blight on humanity, this dismal, depressing flick could be it.
Breakin' transcends cliches thanks to Jamie Foxx's irreverence and charm
Laden with misunderstandings, contrived situations, and terrible characterizations. Even Foxx's charisma can't save this one.
Foxx , Union, Chestnut and MacNicol deserve to be A-list stars much more than any Tom (Cruise), Dick (Gere) or Halle (Berry).
A black-cast romantic comedy that derives its humor from character and plot development rather than from cliched notions of race-based uproariousness...
Foxx and friends are broken by this laughless comedy
How is Breakin' All the Rules different from all the countless other romantic comedies specializing in misunderstandings and mistaken identities? It isn't.
A leaden daisy-chain of mistaken identity that holds the interest of the characters much longer than it does the audience's in watching it or mine in explaining it.
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